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Mark Your Calendar
ITEN 2nd Thursday - March 10
Gateway To Innovation/G2I- April 5
Start Up Connection/Spring 2011 - April 14
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Company News
Hexagrid Graduates from Mock Angel
Message Buzz Exits
Blendics to Receive Arch Angel Funding
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Post your company news on the ITEN website, and we will feature it here.
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Early 2011 ITEN Update
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By Jim Brasunas
Director, IT Entrepreneur Network
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Organic, viral expansion of ITEN is happening more and more every day. We're growing in all kinds of ways: ventures in the program now number well over 150, mentors exceed 100, and our investor affiliates number 30 and include individual angels as well as a number of angel groups and VC's. Most members of all 3 of these key groups are local to the St. Louis metro, but we do have a few companies farther afield, a couple of east coast mentors, and investor groups from Boston, NYC, California and other midwestern cities. Our list of dedicated service providers is also growing.........for those of you who haven't checked them out, please do. They have a dedicated page on the website and represent very supportive companies that want to do what they can to help our early-stage ventures succeed. Last but not least, our key sponsors remain very committed to helping us move forward. Chief among them are Innovate St. Louis and the Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC), and we've also received great support from the Gateway to Innovation Conference, Savvis, the Arch Angel group, and IT Enterprises who keeps us housed in their great facility. This year we're looking for new sponsors to enable our programs to thrive, and Traffic PRM has already stepped up to the plate in that capacity for our E-Commerce and Web Business program.Click here to Read More:
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Apply Now for G2I Innovation Showcase
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Applications for early-stage IT ventures to be featured at the Gateway to Innovation Conference's Innovation Showcase are being taken until March 4. This is a great opportunity to get your venture in front of 800+ Conference attendees. Only a select number of companies are accepted to the Showcase each year. For more info and a link to the application, go to http://www.g2iconference.com/innovation/overview.php.
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 -Innovative Security Intelligence
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Norse Corporation is an emerging provider of breakthrough security intelligence and protection solutions for the home, small business and enterprise. Powered by Norse's IPViking™ Technology Platform - an unprecedented combination of advanced global internet threat monitoring, a growing real-time database of 2.2 billion IP's detailed historical reputation and risk profiles, and a comprehensive and efficient delivery methods for any sized business, organizations can finally turn the tide against insider threats and malicious attacks.
As businesses small and large continue to face losses caused by security breaches, even with solutions in place, a unique approach is required. By analyzing the risk level of every connection from within a company's four walls to an outside device, companies can prevent data loss, malware infection due to botnet connection, and even reduce illegal or unethical activity that can negatively impact audits associated with compliance activities. IPViking Enterprise is delivered to clients through an API, as a service, or via appliance. It is the only available solution which helps administrators translate employee behavior into better security policies, enable risk-adjusted analysis of suspected data leaks, and keep the company's network free of dangerous bots while identifying compromised and zombied servers.
Norse doesn't stop with the commercial sector - its revolutionary family/home solution, ByteWolf™, is a unique parental control solution with a completely different approach to competing solutions. ByteWolf differs from the rest by providing context-sensitive education to kids and families as they encounter threats or dangers online. Parents can invoke the educational mode, which provides a pop-up message to the child when a dangerous interaction such as adult web content, incoming message from a suspected child predator or bot. Kids are empowered to make their own decision about whether or not to proceed (but not without an SMS or email to the parent.) In this way, kids are taught to make good, educated decisions while online at home, so that they are more likely to make good choices when out on their own. ByteWolf can even be enhanced to disallow digital piracy - as Norse is in discussions with Hollywood technology research ventures to provide win-win scenarios for families that make this choice.
For more information about Norse, contact Sam Glines,
sg@norse-corp.com, 314.374.6907
If you want your company featured in a future edtion, please contact Jing Wang at jwang@itenstl.org
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Mentor Spotlight
Brian Blanchard
Brian Blanchard, an ITEN mentor and member of both our Mock Angel and Technology and Architecture programs, is a seasoned IT and operations leader, a serial entrepreneur, a hands on technician, and a philanthropist with extensive experience in multiple verticals. He has a strong passion for startups and venture capital environments. Most recently he's added angel investor to his bag of tricks.
As an entrepreneur, Brian built his first company at the age of 17 and has never stopped. He has over a decade of experience in the development of cutting edge technology solutions. He has been appointed to C-level leadership roles in companies addressing banking, technology, and healthcare. In each organization he has built world class IT and operations organizations. Brian has had successful exits with three organizations and profitable on-going execution with six others. The largest of these was PROvalUSA which grew to an organization with 200 full-time employees and over 20,000 independent consultants in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
Since 2009, he has partnered with Microsoft, Zend, Oracle, and others to build technical solutions using products, tools, and techniques before they've become commercially available. He is commonly called upon to build and/or train IT teams when a requirement for bleeding edge technology is an integral component of a company's competitive advantage.
He serves as a director or on the advisory boards of HyperVize, Twaitter, Microsoft's Community Leadership team, INETA's Community Champions board, and others.
As a philanthropist and community leader, Brian has assisted in the development of community outreach programs in Saint Louis and around the world including GiveCamp, Coders4Charity, Saint Louis Day of Dot Net, STL Innovation Camp/MATA, COMPTIA CIO Executive Council, Center for the Advancement of Enterprise Architecture, and CIO Forum South Africa.
We're fortunate to have Brian in ITEN; as a mentor he can be found on Mentor Match.
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